CH 49

That hand was ice cold, it looked so white that it was almost ugly. It felt like it had been placed in water for too long, the surface of the hand had many wrinkles. This gave a big contrast to her beautiful shape of her face. This made her visibly more gloomy and frightening.

Su TingYun’s heart was beating like a drum and her hairs stood on end. She felt that this spectacle was really strange, just like meeting a ghost.

E ChangGuang saw that Su TingYun was looking terrifyingly at her hand, her elegant eyebrows turned into a scowl and her corners of her mouth twitched. She retracted her hand and covered it within her sleeve.

She weakly leaned onto an animal skin like her body did not have bones, her skirt spread out layer by layer, preventing her body from being seen.

‘After so many years, few people who have descended here are alive.’

Although she was a beauty, her voice sounded hoarse. It sounded like the voice of someone in their seventies or eighties. Su TingYun can’t help but think that E ChangGuang who was a heaven defying figure from three thousand years ago. Her lifespan, how much does she have left?

If she wanted to forcefully steal their bodies, both Xiao Mei and her body’s cultivation was not enough. At this point Su TingYun slightly calmed down. It was not that she suspected her on purpose. It was rather she would not trust someone so easily anymore after all the things she had experienced.

E ChangGuang swept her eyes over her dully. Her head tilted to one side and thought deeply, ‘the last time was a few years ago. There was an extremely ugly pill master.’

An extremely ugly pill master!

Su TingYun immediately thought of GuHao. She lowered her voice and asked: ‘Where is he, is he still alive?’

‘Yes. He knows how to concoct pills, even the beast is pleased with him.’ E ChangGuang raised her hands and pointed into the void, her finger tips overflowing with bright light.

Su TingYun’s entire body felt like she was in a deep pit, she followed the bright light and looked across; she realised that a thin ripple had appeared in front of her eyes. Passing through the water ripple, a cave appeared.

The walls of the cave were immaculate, like a sword cut it before. Within the cracks of the wall grew some weeds, most of them were orchid tongue grass.

In the centre of the cave there was a pitch black item, it could not be seen clearly, its build was extremely large, it was like a wild beast lying there and slept. She became more conscious of her breathing and became more nervous.

At this moment, someone entered the cave.

Su TingYun’s eyes opened wide. That person was unmistakably GuHao.

GuHao no longer had his domineering aura anymore, his facial complexion was waxen yellow. He looked malnourished, his cheeks had turned concave. This made the poisonous ulcers on his skin more distinct, squeezing into a shape of a ball.

When GuHao walked into the cave, the pitch black substance had a reaction. The black substance began squirming, giving those viewing a strange feeling, like something was going to drill out from it.

The strangest thing is, the pitch black substance shrank, turning into a piece of waxy skin. Su TingYun turned and looked at E ChangGuang in amazement, and saw E ChangGuang already sitting upright, her entire body emitting a layer of glow. That glow not only wrapped herself, it included Su TingYun too.

She was definitely afraid of that beast discovering them!

Thinking to this moment, the questions Su TingYun wanted to ask could only be bottled back in. She did not dare to use her divine sense to scout, she only used her eyes to stare at the flat pitched black skin, observing the things squirming below the skin. Then, something drilled out of the cave……

Her heart nearly jumped out of her throat!

What came later nearly made Su TingYun’s eyeballs drop out.

There was a white and round spheroid, the surface of the spheroid had a layer of thin and dense fur. The spheroid was no bigger than the size of a basketball, and did not look like it had facial features, it just had two light green leafs at the top of its head which were opening and closing non stop.

Was there some sort of mistake?

However, Su TingYun only dared to roar in rage inwardly. There were many weird things in the cultivation world, she could not use her previous thinking patterns to solve problems.

The white fur ball sprang towards GuHao after drilling out of the skin.

GuHao took out some medicinal herbs and medicinal pills with a bitter face, and saw a portion of the white fur ball’s body become concave. Then it folded the medicinal herbs and pills into its body. After hiding the medicinal herbs into its body, its body also turned into the same colour as the medicinal herbs which are light green…

The green fur ball returned to the black coloured waxy skin. Not long after, the black waxy skin looked like it had been pumped full of air, becoming enormous. Yet GuHao followed with exhaling a breath of turbid air, immediately collapsing on the corner of the cave.

He must be very tired, as not long after he fell asleep.

After that, the light that E ChangGuang used to envelope their bodies faded away, her face was filled with fatigue and did not tell Su TingYun anything. She immediately closed her eyes and rested.

Su TingYun also felt that E ChangGuang was exhausted.

The medicinal pills on her had been used up long ago, so now it could not help her. She was also very tired, her divine sense was in an overused state. She sat down and meditated, out of her expectations, her spiritual energy immediately beginning revolving. This was a little out of the ordinary.

Did my talent for cultivation improve after being refined by that pill fire? In other words, the leaky vat that held spiritual energy had improved after the tempering and refinement?

Thinking to this point, Su TingYun felt that her whole body was filled with energy, she cultivated non stop. The spiritual energy revolved around the nine acupuncture, only until her body could not persist anymore did she stop cultivating.

Su TingYun had a good rest, she felt that she was going to break through into the third stage of qi formation stage.

After she stopped, she saw E ChangGuang sizing her up due to curiosity.

Looking at her with such intensity, how strange. Did something go wrong with her body?

Su TingYun lowered her head to take a look and was speechless.

To her surprise, she was not wearing any clothes!

Yes, after being refined in the pill furnace, her clothes had been burned away long ago. After that, she was wrapped in a thick layer of black soot. Perhaps it could also be her charred skin. It was impossible to tell if she was wearing any clothes. After falling into the forbidden horizon, she was really tense and did not notice that she was burned till she turned black, and did not care about anything else. Only until she finished cultivating where she regained an optimal mental state and the skin that was charred black was shed, as a result……

She now became a female gangsta who had no bottom line.

Fortunately, E ChangGuang was a woman. Since we are both women, what is the meaning for her to stare at me!

Just when Su TingYun was about to blush, E ChangGuang tossed a set of clothes towards her, which was white in colour, which was not a suitable colour to wear outdoors.

‘I have been here for three thousand years, I only have so much clothes to change, just make do with this to cover your body okay?’ she herself did not have enough skirts to wear, she did not intend to waste them on others.

Su TingYun realised that the sleeves and pants were one cut smaller after wearing them. E ChangGuang compared to her was almost shorter by ten centimeters. All this while she did not stand up, her body was hidden under her long skirt. So it turns out that this ancestor was so petite.

After changing her clothes and checking up on Xiao Mei, Su TingYun inquired in a low voice :’that thing, is that really a beast?’

This was too absurd, it was shaped like a dumpling, ah wait, there were still two tender leaves on the top of its head, so it should look like a little apple.

‘Indeed, I wonder if it is a toy, it used to be a few zhang tall, a sphere as large as a mountain.’

Su TingYun: ’…’

‘At first, it was extremely tyrannical and liked killing, a few years I was beaten like a rag doll by it, I nearly lost my life. If not for it suddenly shedding skin, and what came out was a cute ball who has lost its memory, I would have lived till now.’

‘Lost its memory?’ Su TingYun asked curiously.

‘Yes, it thinks the dead skin it shed off is its mother, it wishes to resurrect its mother. Coincidentally someone who could make pills to treat injuries fell down here and was spotted by it, so he was captured.’

A beast who has lost its memory was still a beast, torturing GuHao to this extent. If not for healing its mother, GuHao would have been bitten to shreds long ago.

The problem was that it is a piece of dead skin. Even if GuHao was a grandmaster pill refiner, would it be possible to turn it into its mother……